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feat(ai): live speech-to-text sessions with Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, xAI, Gemini, Mistral, and Cloudflare adapters - #1964
transcriptionSession() turns live audio into text on the server. Send audio chunks as they arrive, for example from a Twilio call, and iterate interim, final, turn-end, and error events. Then hand each turn to chat(). It ships with seven providers: Deepgram (in the new @tanstack/ai-deepgram package), ElevenLabs, OpenAI, xAI, Gemini, Mistral, and Cloudflare Workers AI.
🎯 Changes
Core (@tanstack/ai).
The transcriptionSession() activity and the LiveTranscriptionAdapter contract: audioInputs plus connect({ emit, end }).
When a provider does not take the input format, the session converts it automatically: G.711 μ-law/A-law decode, plus PCM resampling. createAudioConverter() is exported.
openLiveSocket() in @tanstack/ai/adapter-internals, used by all the adapters.
openLiveSocket() also takes a socket that is already open, such as one from the Workers AI binding.
fakeWebSocket() in @tanstack/ai/testing.
Adapters.
deepgramLiveTranscription (Nova-3 on /v1/listen, Flux on /v2/listen)
elevenlabsLiveTranscription (Scribe realtime, mints a single-use token)
mistralLiveTranscription (Voxtral realtime, mints a client token)
cloudflareLiveTranscription (Deepgram Nova-3 and Flux over the env.AI binding, built on deepgramLiveTranscription's new openSocket option)
All use the standard WebSocket, so they run on Node, Bun, and Workers. Auth goes through a subprotocol, a query param, or a minted token, never custom headers.
Docs.
New pages: docs/media/live-transcription.md (a Twilio call into chat()), docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md, and docs/adapters/deepgram.md.
A "Live transcription" section on the ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Grok, and Gemini adapter pages.
The media-generation skill is updated. Changesets are added.
Decisions on the issue's open questions.
Events are an async iterator.
Events are a plain union, not AG-UI, because this is a server building block and not a chat stream.
Conversion lives in @tanstack/ai, because the session applies it automatically.
No E2E: aimock cannot mock live-audio WebSockets. Coverage is fake-socket unit tests plus the live runs below.
Not in this PR.
Vertex, BytePlus Seed ASR, and fal. Their streaming sockets need an auth header, which a standard WebSocket cannot send.
Cloudflare over REST outside a Worker, for the same reason.
I have tested code changes locally with pnpm run test:pr, or these tests do not apply to this pull request.
I fully understand the code in this pull request, including any code generated with AI assistance.
Docs: I updated docs/ for this change, or this change is not user-facing.
Changeset: I added a changeset (pnpm changeset), or this PR does not change a published package.
🚀 Release Impact
This change affects published code, and I have generated a changeset.
This change is docs/CI/dev-only (no release).
Testing
Commands run. These passed:
vitest run on the new test files in ai, ai-deepgram, ai-openai, ai-elevenlabs, ai-grok, ai-gemini, ai-mistral, and ai-cloudflare.
tsc and oxlint --type-aware on those eight packages.
pnpm test:sherif, pnpm test:knip, and pnpm test:docs.
kiira check on the 8 changed docs and skill files.
Not run: full pnpm test:pr and the E2E suite (no E2E test was added).
Live runs. I streamed a recorded sentence in real time and got the correct text from:
OpenAI gpt-transcribe and gpt-live-transcribe
ElevenLabs scribe_v2_realtime
xAI grok-voice-transcribe-2.0
Gemini gemini-3.5-transcribe-live
Workers AI @cf/deepgram/nova-3 (μ-law) and @cf/deepgram/flux (PCM, and μ-law converted to PCM)
Formats tested were μ-law 8 kHz, A-law 8 kHz, and PCM 16 kHz resampled to 24 kHz.
Not run live:
Deepgram direct and Mistral: no key here. They have unit tests only.
The Workers AI binding itself: the account token cannot start wrangler dev with a remote binding. The Workers AI runs above used the same Deepgram parameters over the REST socket, opened from Node through openSocket.
Manual test.
Run pnpm build.
Put OPENAI_API_KEY (or ELEVENLABS_API_KEY, XAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, DEEPGRAM_API_KEY) in your environment.
Make phone audio: say -o s.aiff "Book a table for two" && afconvert -f WAVE -d ulaw@8000 -c 1 s.aiff s.wav.
Open a session with audio: { encoding: 'mulaw', sampleRate: 8000 }. Send the WAV data in 800-byte chunks every 100 ms, then call close().
Read the printed events. They show interim text while the audio plays, then final and turn-end.
How this PR makes testing easy.
Each adapter has a tests/live-transcription.test.ts.
packages/ai/tests/transcription-session.test.ts covers the conversion and the session.
fakeWebSocket() lets anyone test a live adapter with no network.
Added live speech-to-text sessions that stream audio and provide interim and final transcripts, turn-end notifications, and error events.
Added provider adapters for Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI, Mistral, and Cloudflare Workers AI, with support for phone-audio formats and automatic audio conversion where needed.
Documentation
Added setup guides, provider-specific options, and examples for live transcription, including call audio workflows and advanced session handling.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/adapters/cloudflare.md:
- Line 568: Update the Deepgram modelOptions documentation to split examples by
model: document endpointing for Nova-3 only, and show eotThreshold and
eotTimeoutMs for Flux. Do not imply that Flux reads endpointing.
- Around line 555-558: Update the detached audio-processing task so
`session.close()` runs in a `finally` block even if iterating `audio` or sending
a chunk fails, and handle the producer error so the task does not leave an
unhandled rejection.
Review comments at @docs/adapters/mistral.md:
- Around line 245-247: Update the Voxtral example’s session flow to send audio
chunks through session.send(), then call session.close() when input ends before
awaiting final events. Ensure the example does not wait indefinitely without
supplying audio.
Review comments at @docs/media/live-transcription.md:
- Line 160: Update the Cloudflare entry in the live-transcription setup so it is
clearly a separate setup exception: show how `env.AI` is supplied to
`cloudflareLiveTranscription`, or separate it from the shared `runAgent(callId,
audio)` example so readers do not assume that example works unchanged without a
binding.
Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes: 2
docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md
docs/config.json
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Walkthrough
This PR adds transcriptionSession() to @tanstack/ai, including audio conversion and shared WebSocket utilities. It adds live transcription adapters for Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Grok, Gemini, Mistral, and Cloudflare Workers AI, with tests, documentation, package listings, and changesets.
Adds the live transcription adapter contract and session event iterator. The session selects a provider-supported audio format, converts audio when needed, and supports sending audio and closing the session. Shared WebSocket utilities and a fake WebSocket support adapter connections and tests.
Deepgram adapter package packages/ai-deepgram/*
Adds a Deepgram package with Nova and Flux model support, model-specific connection setup and event mapping, audio sending, and tests.
ElevenLabs and OpenAI adapters packages/ai-elevenlabs/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts, packages/ai-elevenlabs/src/index.ts, packages/ai-elevenlabs/tests/live-transcription.test.ts, packages/ai-openai/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts, packages/ai-openai/src/index.ts, packages/ai-openai/tests/live-transcription.test.ts
Adds live transcription adapters and public exports. Tests cover connection setup, audio transmission, transcription events, errors, and session close behavior.
Gemini and Grok adapters packages/ai-gemini/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts, packages/ai-gemini/src/index.ts, packages/ai-gemini/tests/live-transcription.test.ts, packages/ai-grok/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts, packages/ai-grok/src/index.ts, packages/ai-grok/tests/live-transcription.test.ts
Adds live transcription adapters and public exports. Tests cover provider setup, audio handling, transcript events, and session completion.
Final speech can be lost when an OpenAI or Gemini session closes quickly, and the remaining connection and example issues warrant correction before merge.
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The title clearly summarizes the primary change: live speech-to-text sessions and the seven provider adapters added by the pull request.
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Issue #1944 is open and directly linked. The PR adds transcriptionSession(), the LiveTranscriptionAdapter contract, async interim, final, turn-end, and error events, server-compatible sock…
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The changed source, tests, documentation, skill update, adapter listings, and changesets support the live transcription activity requested by issue #1944. The additional provider adapters and shared s…
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Issue #1944 is open and directly linked. The PR adds transcriptionSession(), the LiveTranscriptionAdapter contract, async interim, final, turn-end, and error events, server-compatible socket support, and shared μ-law, A-law, and PCM conversion. It adds live adapters for Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, xAI, Gemini, Mistral, and Cloudflare Workers AI. It adds session and fake-socket tests, a Twilio-to-chat() page under docs/media/, the media-generation skill update, and changesets. These changes satisfy the coding requirements in issue #1944. The reported omission of full pnpm test:pr and E2E tests does not leave a stated issue coding requirement unmet.
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The changed source, tests, documentation, skill update, adapter listings, and changesets support the live transcription activity requested by issue #1944. The additional provider adapters and shared socket, audio-conversion, and fake-WebSocket utilities implement or test the same provider-neutral feature. No demonstrated change is unrelated to the linked issue. The PR's exclusions are consistent with issue #1944's out-of-scope items.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md:
- Line 77: Update the modelOptions example to set endpointing to false so
turn-end follows the configured one-second utteranceEndMs word-gap threshold.
- Line 28: Update the audio configuration guidance near `sampleRate` to state
that ElevenLabs realtime and Gemini Live require mono audio and that stereo
input must be downmixed before sending; clarify that setting `channels` does not
perform downmixing.
- Line 98: Update the gpt-live-transcribe description in the live transcription
documentation and matching statements in the OpenAI adapter docs and AI core
media-generation skill to state that the adapter can emit turn-end when
transcription completes as the socket is closing; remove the claim that turn-end
never occurs.
Review comments at @docs/media/live-transcription.md:
- Line 133: Update the example around `console.log('Agent:', text)` to clarify
that it only logs the generated text and does not send a response to the caller;
state that speech generation and playback are outside the example, or rename the
section to reflect its logging-only behavior.
- Around line 114-117: Update the detached async task that consumes `audio` so
`session.close()` runs in a `finally` block even if iteration fails, and handle
or propagate the producer error so the task does not create an unhandled
rejection.
- Line 77: Update the live transcription example around transcriptionSession()
to register Twilio event listeners before awaiting session setup, buffer
incoming audio until the session is ready, and handle a socket close during
setup; apply the same ordering fix to the corresponding skill example.
Review comments at @packages/ai-gemini/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts:
- Around line 81-82: Update the `send` handler in the live transcription adapter
to set `pending` to true when audio is sent, before forwarding it to
`live.sendJson`; this ensures `close()` waits for a transcript even if no
interim message has arrived yet, while retaining the existing 5-second timeout.
Review comments at @packages/ai-openai/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts:
- Around line 108-109: Update the audio send handler near the pending state so
sending audio marks it as pending before appending it through live.sendJson.
Preserve the existing audio-buffer append behavior; this ensures close waits for
a final transcript even if no speech-started event or transcription delta has
arrived.
Review comments at @packages/ai/src/activities/transcriptionSession/socket.ts:
- Around line 102-103: In the connection setup that registers onAbort, check
whether abortSignal is already aborted before constructing the socket; if so,
reject with abortSignal.reason and do not start the connection. Keep the
existing abort-event listener for signals that abort after setup.
- Around line 105-131: Update the connection promise in openLiveSocket so it
cannot remain pending indefinitely when options.readyWhen is set: add a
readiness timeout and reject with the provider’s error when an error message
arrives before markReady. Clear the timeout when the promise resolves or
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Document the mono requirement before recommending channels.
Setting channels: 2 does not downmix audio. The session preserves the channel count, while ElevenLabs realtime and Gemini Live require mono audio. Stereo input can therefore produce incorrect transcripts. Tell readers to downmix before sending to these adapters. (elevenlabs.io)
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Review comment at @docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md at line 28:
Update the audio configuration guidance near `sampleRate` to state that
ElevenLabs realtime and Gemini Live require mono audio and that stereo input
must be downmixed before sending; clarify that setting `channels` does not
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Disable endpointing for the one-second example.
Deepgram endpointing is enabled by default and can emit speech_final before utteranceEndMs expires. The adapter turns that message into turn-end, so this example does not wait one second. Set endpointing: false if the example should use the word-gap threshold. (developers.deepgram.com)
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Review comment at @docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md at line 77:
Update the modelOptions example to set endpointing to false so turn-end follows
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Include the close-time turn-end event.
For gpt-live-transcribe, the adapter emits turn-end when a transcription completes while the socket is closing. Code that assumes this event never occurs can process an unexpected final turn. Correct this statement and the matching statements in docs/adapters/openai.md and packages/ai/skills/ai-core/media-generation/SKILL.md. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md at line 98:
Update the gpt-live-transcribe description in the live transcription
documentation and matching statements in the OpenAI adapter docs and AI core
media-generation skill to state that the adapter can emit turn-end when
transcription completes as the socket is closing; remove the claim that turn-end
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Listen for Twilio events while the session opens.
Twilio can send media or close the socket while transcriptionSession() is connecting. The listeners are installed only after that await, so early audio is lost and an early close leaves the session open. Register the listeners first, buffer audio until the session is ready, and handle a close during setup. The skill example has the same ordering. (twilio.com)
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Review comment at @docs/media/live-transcription.md at line 77:
Update the live transcription example around transcriptionSession() to register
Twilio event listeners before awaiting session setup, buffer incoming audio
until the session is ready, and handle a socket close during setup; apply the
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Close the session when the audio source fails.
If the audio iterator rejects, this detached task rejects before calling session.close(). The event loop can then remain open, and the rejection is unhandled. Close the session in finally and propagate or handle the producer error.
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Update the detached async task that consumes `audio` so `session.close()` runs
in a `finally` block even if iteration fails, and handle or propagate the
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
State that the response is not sent to the caller.
The example only logs the generated text. A caller will not hear a reply, despite the section title. Rename the section or state that speech generation and playback are outside this example.
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Review comment at @docs/media/live-transcription.md at line 133:
Update the example around `console.log('Agent:', text)` to clarify that it only
logs the generated text and does not send a response to the caller; state that
speech generation and playback are outside the example, or rename the section to
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Do not close immediately when audio was sent but no interim text has arrived yet.
pending becomes true only when an interimInputTranscription message arrives. If the caller sends the last speech and calls close() before the first interim arrives, live.finish uses timeoutMs = 0. The socket then closes right after audioStreamEnd, and the transcript for that speech is dropped. Set pending = true in send(). The 5 s timeout still bounds the wait when Gemini returns nothing.
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Review comment at @packages/ai-gemini/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts around
lines 81 - 82:
Update the `send` handler in the live transcription adapter to set `pending` to
true when audio is sent, before forwarding it to `live.sendJson`; this ensures
`close()` waits for a transcript even if no interim message has arrived yet,
while retaining the existing 5-second timeout.
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Do not close immediately when audio was sent but no transcript has arrived yet.
pending becomes true only after input_audio_buffer.speech_started or a transcription delta. If close() runs before either event, live.finish uses timeoutMs = 0 after committing the audio buffer. The socket can close before the final transcript arrives.
Treat any audio sent since the last completed transcription as pending.
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Review comment at @packages/ai-openai/src/adapters/live-transcription.ts around
lines 108 - 109:
Update the audio send handler near the pending state so sending audio marks it
as pending before appending it through live.sendJson. Preserve the existing
audio-buffer append behavior; this ensures close waits for a final transcript
even if no speech-started event or transcription delta has arrived.
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Handle an abortSignal that is already aborted.
addEventListener('abort', ...) does not fire for a signal that is already aborted. If a caller passes an aborted signal, the socket still connects and the session stays open until the caller closes it. Check abortSignal.aborted before the socket is constructed, and reject with abortSignal.reason.
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Review comment at @packages/ai/src/activities/transcriptionSession/socket.ts
around lines 102 - 103:
In the connection setup that registers onAbort, check whether abortSignal is
already aborted before constructing the socket; if so, reject with
abortSignal.reason and do not start the connection. Keep the existing
abort-event listener for signals that abort after setup.
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Reject the connect promise when the provider reports an error before it is ready.
When readyWhen is set, the promise resolves only after a matching message arrives, or it rejects only after a close event. Providers can send an error frame and keep the socket open. The OpenAI Realtime API does this for an invalid session.update. The xAI STT endpoint can also send { type: 'error' } before transcript.created. In both cases openLiveSocket never settles. await transcriptionSession(...) then hangs with no timeout. The provider's error text goes into the session queue, but no caller can read it because the session object is never returned.
Add a ready timeout. Also reject with the provider error when an error event arrives before ready. One option is to wrap emit while !ready:
In the adapters' onMessage handlers, report pre-ready errors through a fail callback that LiveSocket exposes, or let openLiveSocket intercept connect.emit while !ready.
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[warning] 114-131: Message event listeners should validate the origin to prevent XSS attacks. Always check the event origin before processing the message.
Context: ws.addEventListener('message', (event: MessageEvent) => {
// Some providers (Gemini Live) send JSON in binary frames.
const text =
typeof event.data === 'string'
? event.data
: event.data instanceof ArrayBuffer
? decoder.decode(event.data)
: undefined
if (text === undefined) return
let message: unknown
try {
message = JSON.parse(text)
} catch {
return
}
if (!ready && options.readyWhen?.(message)) markReady()
options.onMessage(message, live)
})
Note: [CWE-346] Origin Validation Error
(event-origin-validation)
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around lines 105 - 131:
Update the connection promise in openLiveSocket so it cannot remain pending
indefinitely when options.readyWhen is set: add a readiness timeout and reject
with the provider’s error when an error message arrives before markReady. Clear
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…Workers AI
- mistralLiveTranscription (voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602), minting a client token
- cloudflareLiveTranscription (Deepgram Nova-3 and Flux over the env.AI binding)
- openLiveSocket takes an already-open socket; deepgramLiveTranscription gains openSocket
tombeckenham
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feat(ai): live speech-to-text sessions with Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, xAI, and Gemini adapters
feat(ai): live speech-to-text sessions with Deepgram, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, xAI, Gemini, Mistral, and Cloudflare adapters
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Major · Stability & Availability
Close the session when the audio iterator fails.
If audio rejects, this detached task exits before session.close(), and its rejection is unhandled. Put session.close() in finally and handle the producer error. This repeats the lifecycle issue previously flagged in the live-transcription guide. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the detached audio-processing task so `session.close()` runs in a
`finally` block even if iterating `audio` or sending a chunk fails, and handle
the producer error so the task does not leave an unhandled rejection.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Document endpointing only for Nova-3.
Flux does not read endpointing; it uses eotThreshold and eotTimeoutMs. Split the option examples by model. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the Deepgram modelOptions documentation to split examples by model:
document endpointing for Nova-3 only, and show eotThreshold and eotTimeoutMs for
Flux. Do not imply that Flux reads endpointing.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Send audio in the Voxtral example.
The example never calls session.send() or session.close(). It waits for events indefinitely and cannot produce a final event as written. Add an audio loop and close the session after input ends. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the Voxtral example’s session flow to send audio chunks through
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Mark Cloudflare as a setup exception.
The preceding text says the rest of the code stays the same, but Cloudflare requires { binding: env.AI }. The shown runAgent(callId, audio) example has no binding parameter. Add the binding setup or label Cloudflare as a separate example. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs/media/live-transcription.md at line 160:
Update the Cloudflare entry in the live-transcription setup so it is clearly a
separate setup exception: show how `env.AI` is supplied to
`cloudflareLiveTranscription`, or separate it from the shared `runAgent(callId,
audio)` example so readers do not assume that example works unchanged without a
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transcriptionSession()turns live audio into text on the server. Send audio chunks as they arrive, for example from a Twilio call, and iterateinterim,final,turn-end, anderrorevents. Then hand each turn tochat(). It ships with seven providers: Deepgram (in the new@tanstack/ai-deepgrampackage), ElevenLabs, OpenAI, xAI, Gemini, Mistral, and Cloudflare Workers AI.🎯 Changes
@tanstack/ai).transcriptionSession()activity and theLiveTranscriptionAdaptercontract:audioInputsplusconnect({ emit, end }).createAudioConverter()is exported.openLiveSocket()in@tanstack/ai/adapter-internals, used by all the adapters.openLiveSocket()also takes a socket that is already open, such as one from the Workers AI binding.fakeWebSocket()in@tanstack/ai/testing.deepgramLiveTranscription(Nova-3 on/v1/listen, Flux on/v2/listen)elevenlabsLiveTranscription(Scribe realtime, mints a single-use token)openaiLiveTranscription(intent=transcription)grokLiveTranscription(wss://api.x.ai/v1/stt)geminiLiveTranscription(gemini-3.5-transcribe-live)mistralLiveTranscription(Voxtral realtime, mints a client token)cloudflareLiveTranscription(Deepgram Nova-3 and Flux over theenv.AIbinding, built ondeepgramLiveTranscription's newopenSocketoption)WebSocket, so they run on Node, Bun, and Workers. Auth goes through a subprotocol, a query param, or a minted token, never custom headers.docs/media/live-transcription.md(a Twilio call intochat()),docs/media/live-transcription-advanced.md, anddocs/adapters/deepgram.md.media-generationskill is updated. Changesets are added.@tanstack/ai, because the session applies it automatically.WebSocketcannot send.✅ Checklist
pnpm run test:pr, or these tests do not apply to this pull request.docs/for this change, or this change is not user-facing.pnpm changeset), or this PR does not change a published package.🚀 Release Impact
Testing
Commands run. These passed:
vitest runon the new test files inai,ai-deepgram,ai-openai,ai-elevenlabs,ai-grok,ai-gemini,ai-mistral, andai-cloudflare.tscandoxlint --type-awareon those eight packages.pnpm test:sherif,pnpm test:knip, andpnpm test:docs.kiira checkon the 8 changed docs and skill files.Not run: full
pnpm test:prand the E2E suite (no E2E test was added).Live runs. I streamed a recorded sentence in real time and got the correct text from:
gpt-transcribeandgpt-live-transcribescribe_v2_realtimegrok-voice-transcribe-2.0gemini-3.5-transcribe-live@cf/deepgram/nova-3(μ-law) and@cf/deepgram/flux(PCM, and μ-law converted to PCM)Formats tested were μ-law 8 kHz, A-law 8 kHz, and PCM 16 kHz resampled to 24 kHz.
Not run live:
wrangler devwith a remote binding. The Workers AI runs above used the same Deepgram parameters over the REST socket, opened from Node throughopenSocket.Manual test.
pnpm build.OPENAI_API_KEY(orELEVENLABS_API_KEY,XAI_API_KEY,GEMINI_API_KEY,DEEPGRAM_API_KEY) in your environment.say -o s.aiff "Book a table for two" && afconvert -f WAVE -d ulaw@8000 -c 1 s.aiff s.wav.audio: { encoding: 'mulaw', sampleRate: 8000 }. Send the WAV data in 800-byte chunks every 100 ms, then callclose().interimtext while the audio plays, thenfinalandturn-end.How this PR makes testing easy.
tests/live-transcription.test.ts.packages/ai/tests/transcription-session.test.tscovers the conversion and the session.fakeWebSocket()lets anyone test a live adapter with no network.Linked issues
Closes #1944
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Low. All of this is new API, and no existing behavior changes. To undo, revert the PR. The Deepgram adapter has not been run against the live service.
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